Clothes-basket cart



Sept. 20, 1927.

E. A. HAGBERG CLOTHES BASKET CART Fi'led March 15. 1925 INVENTOE rf/MJ? WW I #HY TTo/VEY.

Patented Sept. 20, 1927. i(

'v UNITEDSTATES EDWARD A. HAGBERG, or sfr. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

PATENT CLOTHES-BASKET CART.

My invention relates to push carts in general and more specifically to a cart .designed for transporting clothes baskets from the place where the clothes have been washed to where they are to be hung on lines to dry.

p The object is to provide a simple, efficient and inexpensive device readily collapsed into a very small space when not in use and is conveniently and quickly set up for use.

In t-he accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a top view of the simplest form of my device.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1, slightly modified, and showing a clothes basket restingl on the tray of the device.

Fig. 3 is a face view of the upper end of the handle bar 8 8A showing more clearly the clothes line reel and pin-bag features.

Fig. 4 is a side view of the cart collapsed.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 5 designates a pair of supporting ground wheels on an axle 6. 7 are two bearings for axle 6 each secured to the lower` end of a bar 8, the upper ends of said two bars being connected by a transverse handle bar 8A. The bars 8 and8A thus form a U-frame. In said U-fraine I mount pivotally on a .shaft 9 a secondary U-frame oppositely disposed to the main U-frame and coin.- prising two parallel bars 10 the forward ends of which are connected by a transversey cleat 11 having a pivot pin 11A at each end engaging the front or upper end of a bar 10.

The cleat 11 is fixed to and supports the front end of a tra 127 the latter preferablyv of elongated qua rangular form. 12A is a vertically disposed flange on the ,front` end of the tray and 12B are like side flanges exitending rearwardly and each of the latter having an angular rear terminus as 12X for a purpose to be described. 13 is a cross bar in the main Uframe located so as to support the rear end of the tray 12 horizontally and be engaged by one or more hook.mem bers 14 .secured as at 14A on the under side of the tray (see Figs. 1 and 2).

When the device is in operative or set up position (Figs. 1 and 2) the tray 12 is in a horizontal plane, the wheel supported main U-frame projects upward and rearwardly and the smaller U-frame extends rearwardly and downwardly from cleat 11 to the ground the rear ends of bars 10 bein@ cut at an angle to provide a maximum bearing surface, as 1()X in Figs. 2 and 4. Thus the U-frames form an X-shaped support for tray 12 vthe latter being in horizontal plane and the hook 14 engaging bar 13 prevents the U-frames from spreading. In this operative position the tray projects rearwardly between the bars 8 of the main U-frame and the sloping surfaces 12X of each side member 12B may engage the upwardly exposed edge of each member V8 as at A in Fig. 1.

In the operative position abovey described a clothes basket 15 full of washed clothes 16 may be placed on tray 12 and the device is ready to be moved to a place where the clothes are to be hung up. It is well known that laundresses and housewives hanging up clothes usually place the basket on the ground and then proceed to hang up theclothes lonlines. Many trips are're uired between the basket and the lines an the distance increases as the work progresses or the basket must be moved from time to time. Vith my device the basket is kept high and dry above the V ground and is readily moved along and kept within easy reach of where the clothes are being-hung up.

To increase the eliiciency of my device I mount a clothes-line reel 17 secured on shaft 18 rotatable in a bracket- 19 fixed on one bar 8, and a notch in the other bar 8. 18A is a handcrank for turning the reel and is preferably made of an extension of shaft 18 (see Fig. The notch is normally closed by a latch 20 pivoted as at 20A and may be swun back as to 2OX (Fig. 3) permitting the ree to be removed if'so desired. 21 is a clothes-pin bag with hooks 21A adapted to engage the handle bar 8A and shaft 18 simultaneously and be suspended therefrom in open condition.

The ydevice may readily be folded up in a small space.k The smaller U-frame may bev swung into the plane of the large U-frame, it being understood that the hooks 14 are first disengaged from bar 13; the tray 12 then rests upon the foldedy U-frames, as in Fig. 4. 22 isa hook member secured on the inner side of either or both U-frame barsv 10 and located so that when the device is folded up this hook may be used to engage .shaft v13 of U-frame 8 and hold the two frames locked together. In Fig. 4 I have shown also a hook 23 secured on the outer side of bar 8 and adapted to engage a pin 24 suitably located on the side member 12B of the tray to hold the device in folded condition. Y r v Whatl claim is: v

In a clothes basket cart having a traylike platform, a long forwardly and down- V Wardly directed U-rame, a short U-shaped frame, both said U-frames mounted on a common pvot and adapted to support the trayin elevated horizontal positlon, one end EDWARD A. HAGBERG. 

